In our modern times, mental health has no substantial basis. At best, it is a name of a group of arbitrary subjects. As well, Counselors are taught definite ways of thinking, acting, and particular skills to address mental health by our schooling and training but we have no philosophy that informs us as to what it really means to be Counselors beyond an ethical way to behave. Counseling is presumed to be a discipline of psychology as psychology is assumed to deal with anything of the mind.

For the sake of the mental health of the people we treat, and including ourselves, and in acknowledgement that the business-as-usual-approach to mental health has created a situation of greater health problem more than it has helped to reduce mental issue, I question this vague ideal in general, its order of operations and the nesting of disciplines.

We know as practitioners, from what we are taught and what we do as Counselors, mental health is not entirely subject to modern psychological findings.

This is the forging of the beginnings of a veritable philosophy of mental health.
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